"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
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"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."
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"No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office."
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"If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains."
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"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."
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"The person I miss most is the one I could have been."
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"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
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"Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it."
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"Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party."
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"Most people do not pray; they only beg."
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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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"Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great."
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"The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."
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"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
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"Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'"
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"The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school."
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
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"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."
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"The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business."
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